The European island nation of Ireland, already big into wind power, looks now to also have a major presence of electric car charging points. This is the word anyhow recently from the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), which is a mostly state owned electric company. The big question though is – will there be enough electric cars being driven to actually make use of them?
ESB said it recently had installed 1000 electric vehicle charging points around Ireland, meaning all counties and 85 percent of major cities and towns there now have access “to EV charging infrastructure.” The utility and its partners aren’t stopping there though, planning for “further charge points throughout the country to include the remainder of towns with populations greater than 1,500.”
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